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VaultSpeed

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What is VaultSpeed?

Low-/no-code data warehouse automation solution with focus on integration of distributed data sources, data vault modeling and ETL/DDL code generation.

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VaultSpeed BARC Review & Rating

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Longtime data consultants Piet De Windt and Dirk Vermeiren founded VaultSpeed five years ago with the mission of helping companies consolidate tabular datasets into comprehensive models that data engineers and analysts can easily customize. VaultSpeed is built on the Data Vault 2.0 methodology, which combines the best aspects of the Kimball and Inmon approaches, offering the ability to store all data versions, track history and manage evolving schemas. This ensures flexibility in handling complex data environments while maintaining data integrity.

VaultSpeed has quickly gained traction, raising €18.7 million in Series A funding from prominent investors such as Cronos Group, Fortino Capital and Octopus Ventures. The company employs around 60 people in 4 offices in Europe and North America. Today, its customer base includes major players such as medical supplier Olympus, financial services firm Argenta and logistics company Bleckmann. VaultSpeed also partners with leading technology vendors such as Snowflake, Databricks and Microsoft to enhance its platform’s capabilities and to be an important building block in overall data platform initiatives providing critical and more comprehensive integration capabilities (e.g., to Snowflake).

The platform automates the creation, versioning and updating of reusable data products for centralized or decentralized data mesh environments. With a user-friendly graphical interface, VaultSpeed enables data engineers and architects to design and implement relational data models from diverse sources. The system’s use of standard templates simplifies the building of transformation logic and workflows, while custom templates help enforce data quality rules across various domains. This automation empowers businesses to manage and consume data products efficiently, even as data structures evolve.

In addition to its technical offerings, VaultSpeed actively contributes to the Data Vault 2.0 community through training, events and collaboration with the Data Vault Alliance. By helping companies modernize their data management and modeling processes, VaultSpeed supports organizations in harnessing the full potential of their data in an ever-changing landscape, ensuring scalability, governance and performance across industries by utilizing automation capabilities in data integration processes.

Strengths and challenges of VaultSpeed

BARC’s viewpoint on the product’s strengths and challenges.

Strengths
  • Enterprises buy VaultSpeed to simplify how their technical users integrate data and manage data vault environments. They rank VaultSpeed higher than industry alternatives for Ease of Use and fit with their technology landscape.
  • VaultSpeed excels at delivering value to customers, with high ranks for Business Benefits and Price to Value in the Data Product Engineering peer group.
  • Customers have a strong consulting relationship with VaultSpeed and appreciate its broad ecosystem support for data warehousing partners as well as its local support services.
Challenges
  • VaultSpeed has limitations in how it configures business rules, branches data versions and generates custom expressions.
  • VaultSpeed earns low marks for Performance and Platform Reliability compared with industry alternatives. This is especially true in the Data Warehouse Automation peer group, where customers also rank it lowest for Project Success.
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VaultSpeed User Reviews & Experiences

The information contained in this section is based on user feedback and actual experience with VaultSpeed.

The information and figures are largely drawn from BARC’s The BI & Analytics Survey, The Planning Survey, The Financial Consolidation Survey and The Data Management Survey. You can find out more about these surveys by clicking on the relevant links.

Summary of user review highlights from VaultSpeed

What users like about VaultSpeed and where the product scores best in a user comparison.

For the first time in The Data Management Survey, Vaultspeed achieved several leading positions and 2 top ranks, particularly in the Data Warehouse Automation peer group. Users reaped significant Business Benefits from the tool, rating it 9.1 out of 10 in this KPI.

89 percent of respondents highlighted the increased value they gained from data as a key advantage. Additionally, Vaultspeed scored well in the Ecosystem Integration and Partner Ecosystem KPIs, confirming that it functions not only as a standalone solution but also as an easily integrable and functional component in strategically important data & analytics infrastructures.

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Individual user reviews for VaultSpeed

Role
Consultant
Number of employees
Less than 100
Industry
IT
Source
Invited by the vendor, The Data Management Survey 25, 02/2024
What do you like best?

Platform independent, no-code/low-code design, automation easiness, quicker development.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Nothing so far.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

It's a really good cloud based tool which interestingly is Data Vault 2.0 complaint, so you're worries about getting off the track while implementing DV2.0 will be gone. It sticks to DV2.0 and helps develop quickly with no-code/low-code automation.

How would you sum up your experience?

A good overall tool which helps implementing Data Vault 2.0 easily.

Role
Consultant
Number of employees
Less than 100
Industry
Research and academia
Source
Invited by the vendor, The Data Management Survey 25, 04/2024
What do you like best?

It's a easy way to build a scalable data vault style data warehouse and skip hand-writing dozens of large SQL files.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Pricing doesn't scale down well enough. But it's reasonable for large customers.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Be sure you have a clear plan for use of any staging areas, the staging layer in VaultSpeed is not the same thing as an actual staging or landing area for source data.

How would you sum up your experience?

It is a very fully featured product and does 1 thing very well.

Role
Consultant
Number of employees
Less than 100
Industry
Retail
Source
BARC Marketing, The Data Management Survey 25, 03/2024
What do you like best?

Quick graphic modeling. Ready-to-deploy and certified code. Concentrate on business needs rather than coding. Reliability.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Connectivity. More graphical modeling on Business Vault / Data Mart layers.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

First get trained with Datavault. Start with an MVP with certified Data Vault consultants.

How would you sum up your experience?

Very good.

Role
Consultant
Number of employees
Less than 100
Industry
Banking and finance
Source
BARC Marketing, The Data Management Survey 25, 04/2024
What do you like best?

How much value it adds to a business by automating so much of a warehouse development process.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

More flexible price ranges.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Doing data consolidation manually cannot compare to doing it automated. So go for it.

How would you sum up your experience?

Great product, automates much of the process, saving companies long term cost and decreasing time to value.

Role
Data engineer/Data manager
Number of employees
More than 2.500
Industry
Media/Publishing
Source
Invited by the vendor, The Data Management Survey 25, 02/2024
What do you like best?

Best data automation tool and the training that's available for it's users.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Bugs caused after latest release.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

It is better to use VaultSpeed instead of manually creating SQL scripts.

How would you sum up your experience?

It's a great tool. It was a great learning experience in the beginning. But once a user gets a hang of the tool's functionalities it becomes easy to navigate. The UI is good & easy to use.

Role
Consultant
Number of employees
More than 2.500
Industry
Consulting
Source
Invited by the vendor, The Data Management Survey 25, 02/2024
What do you like best?

Metadata driven approach.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Scalability in terms of concurrent users (also a drawback of data vault methodology).

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Get specialized experienced consultancy.

How would you sum up your experience?

Promising localy developed tooling.

Role
Data engineer/Data manager
Number of employees
More than 2.500
Industry
IT
Source
Invited by the vendor, The Data Management Survey 25, 03/2024
What do you like best?

Accessibility and ease of use.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Customer support.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

It's a easy to use tool just lacks in customer support.

How would you sum up your experience?

A good ETL tool.

Role
CIO
Number of employees
Less than 100
Industry
Consulting
Source
Invited by the vendor, The Data Management Survey 25, 03/2024
What do you like best?

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What do you like least/what could be improved?

There are certain areas of opportunity that we believe would greatly enhance Vaultspeed's place in this software genre. Most importantly is providing additional attention to the consumption aspect of the data vault in the ability to generate custom expressions and rules in the business and information layer. VaultSpeed Studio was a great and welcoming addition to it's product suite when added. However, an enhanced more graphical and feature rich capability in this area would set it apart from it's competitors if it implements such a highly configurable experience that it has for it's core raw vault and business vault functionality. The ability to create hard business rules in the staging process is functionality that could be enhanced. VaultSpeed Studio's template language is a little awkward to use for even the most seasoned veteran. A simplification of capability in this aspect of the tool will help in a more widespread adoption of this feature. The biggest opportunity for VaultSpeed is in the area of data modernization of customers with existing data vaults or data warehouse. A more automated way to handle these migrations within the tool would be ideal. Documentation, blogs, videos on how this can be done whether manually or automated would allow for more widespread adoption of the tool, especially in areas where POCs are being done against its competitors. This is probably one of the least mature aspects of the tool in comparison to its more mature competition.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

VaultSpeed offers a mature and feature rich solution for building a data vault. It is the most configurable tool in this space on the market and addresses a lot of the concerns that the typical data vault engineer/user would encounter in building a data vault. The most impressive aspect is it's ease of set up and time to market to get up and running. It has a high number of integrations for the leading database vendors in the market and continues to expand its connector footprint. The Rest API integration is a often overlooked aspect of the tools capabilities. Compared to its competitors, the integration opportunities of VaultSpeed with third party tools (COTS or Custom) is great. Highlighting these features through documentation and videos would be a great boon to user and developer adoption.

How would you sum up your experience?

Vaultspeed has great potential in the data warehouse automation market. It's claims for the ease of use for building a data vault with a low code setup holds true. There are certain areas of opportunity that we believe would greatly enhance Vaultspeed's place in this software genre. Most importantly is providing additional attention to the consumption aspect of the data vault in the ability to generate custom expressions and rules in the business and information layer. VaultSpeed Studio was a great and welcoming addition to it's product suite when added. However, an enhanced more graphical and feature rich capability in this area would set it apart from it's competitors if it implements such a highly configurable experience that it has for it's core raw vault and business vault functionality.

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Reviewed versions
100 percent latest cloud version
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Data Product Engineering, Data Product Engineering (Big Players), Data Warehouse Automation
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